MSNBC

12/27/09

Native American tribes tired of waiting for the U.S. government to honor centuries-old treaties are buying back land where their ancestors lived and putting it in federal trust. Native Americans say the purchases will help protect their culture and way of life by preserving burial grounds and areas where sacred rituals are held. They also provide land for farming, timber and other efforts to make the tribes self-sustaining...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Indigenous Activists March on U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen Urging Obama to "Stop the U.S. Energy Industry's War on Native Peoples and Lands".

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/12/10-1

Kyra Ryan, Inter Press Service: "Some 8,000 kilometres from the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Native American environmental experts from 66 tribes came together at a summit here this week to address the most pressing needs in their communities - problems, all emphasised, that know no geographic boundaries."

http://www.truthout.org/12060905

Crazy Horse, We hear what you say

By John Trudell
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23184.htm

Video Lecture

In both the Delawares and Yaquis examples, greed and land hunger on the part of the U.S. and Mexican governments appears to have been the main reasons for the forced migration of these indigenous people.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22550.htm

Dan Bacher, Truthout: "Arrayed in traditional regalia, over two dozen members of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe held a war dance along the banks of the American River the evening of April 19 and morning of April 20 to bring attention to decades of injustice and destruction of their cultural sites by the federal government."

http://www.truthout.org/050409EA?n